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(Application led July 27, 1901.)

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No. 695,691. Patented Mar. I8', |902.

G. M. MARSHALL.

LIUID MEASURING AND REGISTERING DEVICE.

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NITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

LIQUID IVIEASURING AND REGISTERING DEVICE.

SPECXFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 695,691, dated March 18, 1902.

Application filed July 27, 1901. Serial No. 69.885. (No model.)

To allai/71,0772, it' may concern.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE MILLER MAR- SHALL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Edinburgh, Scotland, have inistering correctly any specified quantity of' liquor or other liquids, a further object being to provide a device of the class described which will register from one gill up to one thousand gallons and will discharge the liquor or other liquid therefrom in quantities of a quarter-gill or half-pint at each operationthereof; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists of a device of the. class specified constructed as hereinafter de' scribed and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the-separate parts of my improvement are designated by the same reference characters in each of the views, and in whichf Figurel isafront end elevation of my improved liquor measuring and registering device; Fig. 2, a plan view thereof, part of the casing and partV ot" the construction being broken away or removed; Fig 3, a vertical longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 4; Fig. 4, a horizontal section on the line 4 et of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, aplan View of the scales or dialplates, and Fig. 6 aplau view of a detail of construction.

In the practice of my invention I provide a main casing divided by alongitudinal par-l tition A2, so as to form two measuring-chainbers A3, and with the front end of whichvis connected a casing forming a dischargechamber B in connection with both of the measuring-chambers A3 and with the rear endof which is connected a casing forming a well or supply-chambery O.

The liquid to be measured is fed into the well or su pply-chamber C by means of a supply-pipe, (not shown, but connected therewith in practice at 02,) and lthe liquid is discharged from the discharge-chamber B through a nozzle4 B2. The casings forming the dischargechamber Band the well C are connected with the body of the main casing by set-screws or in any desired manner, and said body of the main casing may also be composed of separate parts connected in any desired manner, the bottom of said main casing being shown at D and the top thereof at E, and the top E of the main casing A is provided with a register-casing E2, in which the registering apparatus is placed.

The measuring-chambers A2 communicate with the discharge-chamber B and the well C through valve-openings B3 and C3, respectively, and these openings are controlled by valves F, which are connected two and two or in pairs in each of the measuring-chambers by means of spindles I and box-nuts G and jam-nuts H, and a vertically-arranged lever K is pivoted at K2 and passes upwardly through the top lof the discharge-chamber B and provided at its upper end with a pivoted handle L, and the lower end of said lever is connected at K3 with a lever J, pivoted at J 2 and provided with two arms J 2, which are connectedwith the spindles I of the valves F within the discharge-chamber B.

When the lever K is tilted to one side, one valve in'one measuring-chamber opens to the well C, while one valve in the other measuring-chamber opens to the discharge-chamber B,-and this operation is reversed when the lever K is turned or moved in the opposite direction, said lever being operated by means of the handle L. In no case, however, does the charging-valve open until the dischargevalve in the same chamber has closed. The box-nuts G, the jam-nutsH, and springs H2 are the means of accomplishing this result, their office being to seat the said valves. Arranged transversely of the main casing, over the rear end thereof, is a passage M,provided with a vent-opening m, forming a communication between the separate measuring-chambers A3, and this passage is controlled at each end by a suitable valve N, supported by a bracket N2, and by means of this construction the air is allowed to pass from one of the measuring-chambers AS to the other, and by IOO means of this construction as the liquor or liquid rises in one of said chambers the air is forced into the other and at the proper time the valve N rises and closes the passage M.

The registering apparatus is designated generally by the reference-letter O, and this apparatus is of the following construction: A lever P is pivoted at P2 and passes outwardly through the front of the casing of the registering apparatus and through a horizontal slot P3, formed therein, and through a vertical slot P4 in lthe lever K. This lever P is connected with a ratchet-wheel 1, provided with sixty-four teeth and which is caused to rotate by means of the lever P, which is provided with a spring-operated catch P2 (shown in detail in Fig. 6) and connected with said lever P by means of an upwardly-directed eX- tension P3, formed thereon, and at each movement of the lever P the catch P2 moves the wheel l through the space occupied by one of the teeth thereon. The Wheel l is provided with a wheel 2, having ten teeth, which gears in connection with a wheel 3,having one hundred teeth, and this Wheel 3 is provided with a wheel 4, having ten teeth, which gears in connection with a wheel 5, having one hundred teeth, and said wheel 5 is provided with a wheel (3, having ten teeth and which gears in connection with a wheel 7, provided with one hundred teeth.

The wheel l is provided with a pointer 7, which operates in connection with a dial or registerscale 7n and which registers gills from one to thirty-two. The wheel 5 is provided with a pointer 8, which operates in connection with' a register-scale or dial S and which registers gallons from one to one hundred, and the wheel 7 is provided with a pointer 9, which operates in connection with a scale or dial 9 and which registers gallons from one to one thousand, and the scales or dial-plates 7, S, and 9a are clearly shown in Fig. 5.

Myimproved measuring and registering device is simple in construction and operation and well adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended, and it will be apparent that changes in and modifications of the construction described maybe made Without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

I-Iaving fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A liquid measuring and registering device comprising a casing divided longitudinally into two measuring-chambers and provided at one end with a well or supply-chamber and at the opposite end with a dischargechamber, said measuring-chambers and well and discharge-chambers being in communi cation; valves connected in pairs in each olf the measuring-chambers for controlling said communications, a lever pivoted within the discharge-chamber and connected with each of said pairs of valves, an operating-lever connected with said first-named leverand extending upwardly through the top of the discharge-chamber and a registering apparatus in connection with said operating-lever and adapted to be operated thereby, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a liquid measuring and registering device, a casing divided longitudinally into two separate measuring-chambers, a Well or supply-chamber at one end of said casing and a discharge-chamber at the other end thereof, said measuring-chambers being in communication with said Well or supply, and said measuring chambers, valves arranged in 

